Location
London, based at Bracken House near St Paul’s, with a hybrid working model requiring onsite presence approximately 50% of the time.

Hours
Full time, 12-month fixed-term contract covering maternity leave.

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
The Financial Times is a globally recognised news organisation known for its authority, integrity and accuracy. We are seeking a Product Designer to join our Design Systems team to help evolve Origami, the FT’s design system. This role involves designing and building reusable components, patterns, foundations and libraries that support product delivery across web and mobile platforms including iOS and Android. You will collaborate closely with product designers, engineers, product managers, and Brand and Editorial Design teams to ensure consistency, quality and accessibility across all platforms. Working within a federated contribution model, you will help teams adopt and evolve the system over time, maintaining a high bar for accessibility and design craft. The role also involves exploring AI-enabled tooling to enhance prototyping, component definition and documentation workflows. This is an opportunity to contribute to a premium, coherent FT product experience while developing your own design systems expertise within an established and evolving team.

Experience
- Strong product design craft across interaction, visual design and prototyping with attention to detail and quality.
- Experience working on or contributing to digital products or design systems, understanding how systems scale across teams and platforms.
- Experience designing across web and mobile, including familiarity with iOS and Android platform conventions and hybrid environments.
- Experience working in Figma, including component libraries, variables, tokens and prototyping.
- Experience creating or contributing to reusable components, patterns or guidance for digital products.
- Experience working closely with engineers to deliver high-quality outcomes.
- Experience working in cross-functional teams within product delivery environments.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Interest or experience in AI-assisted design or development workflows is a plus.

About you
- Confident applying accessibility standards in practice.
- Ability to communicate ideas clearly and document work to support both design and engineering, with a working understanding of HTML, CSS and accessible, semantic markup.
- Collaborative approach with the ability to build relationships across product, engineering, editorial and brand teams.
- Comfortable collaborating through feedback, contribution and shared ways of working.
- Understanding of how individual design decisions contribute to broader system quality, consistency and maintainability.
- Up to date with and interested in how AI is shaping design and development workflows.
- Curious about systems thinking and emerging technologies.

Qualifications
- A portfolio demonstrating strong product and systems thinking with evidence of meaningful impact.
- A positive attitude towards accessibility, systems thinking and continuous learning.